green light (verse)
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“Like a… like a drag queen, then?” Pat asks, feeling like his breath is caught in his throat.
Brian pauses. “Not exactly. But you’ll see.” He winks at Pat confidently, and Pat’s heart is racing, trying to imagine the environment he’s going to be in. “Is that going to be a problem for you?” Brian asks, cautiously.
This is the out that Brian is giving him. And Pat knows he could take it. He could politely shrug off the job, head home. It’s a nice pay, but firmly outside of his comfort zone. So he should take it. Walk out.
In 1920s Manhattan, Pat is a freelance photographer and Brian is a queer performer. Brian hires Pat out of the blue and who is Pat to say no to field work, even if it does involve delving into the strangest night life he’s ever experienced, and hoping to God that it doesn’t awaken anything in him to see men around him wearing scandalously short dresses and skirts and beads and makeup and rouge.
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- Part 1 of green light (verse)
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as close as a star to the moon by pleasert
Fandoms: Polygon/McElroy Vlogs & Podcasts RPF
29 Nov 2019
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Brian's as pretty as a picture when he's posing, when he's performing, when he's composed. It's really something quite graceful, something Pat's not seen in many people; he has a way of carrying himself that is somehow both elegant and simultaneously goofy, but he manages to play it off most of the time pretty well—Brian's charming, is the thing.
But God, Pat thinks, when Brian finally comes undone—that's when the real show starts.
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- Part 2 of green light (verse)
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This—him, Simone, and Pat—could be, Brian thinks, a thing. He doesn’t know how to quantify it, or even maybe how to bring it up, but he’s seen the way Pat becomes all liquidy under Simone’s hands, how he melts into submission. And Simone and Brian have their own history, their own chemistry. When Pat gives Simone her drink, she tells him how very good it is, and he smiles wide and big.
Brian’s not one to shy away from seeing Pat smile like that more often.
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- Part 3 of green light (verse)